A non governmental organization named Sightsavers Nigeria has conducted a four days training for physically Challenged women on entrepreneur skills in Kano with the aim of making them to become self reliant.
Speaking during the distribution of start-up parks to the 100 hundred beneficiaries at Murtala Mohammed Library Kano, the Sightsavers program officer, Girls Education Sightsavers Nigeria, Anita Nchat-Kelvin said the aim of the training was to help the young women identify a business and modalities of enhancing the business.
“The whole idea is that young women with disabilities are among the vulnerable and merginalize people within the society ,and because of that we’ve taken surveys and ask them questions and realized that they need certain skills ,one of these skills is how to start and sustain a business “
“Today we are empowering one hundred beneficiaries but we are targeting four hundred beneficiaries in the near future’
The start-up parks we are dishing out to the beneficiaries includes tooth paste close- up,Pears Baby products,and other cooking materials .
Anita Nchat Kelvin maintained that Partners supporting the program includes Uniliver and GBF growing Business Foundation,while So Sightsavers is implementing the Project.
Fiddausi Mohammad Umar and Amina Jibrin Shuaibu were among the beneficiaries of the training ,they applauded Sightsavers and other partners for organizing the training and empowerment.
They promised to make adequate utilization of the training and the start-up parks provided ,aimed at becoming self reliant.
